(Henry Tudor of Lancaster) and Elizabeth of York.

Thus the strife of the succession was settled, and the realm had rest to reorganize and start anew in its historic career.
The weakening of the aristocracy by war and by execution gave to the crown a power before unknown, and made it a fearful coigne of vantage for Henry VIII., whose accession was in 1509.

People and parliament were alike subservient, and gave their consent to the unjust edicts and arbitrary cruelties of this terrible tyrant.
In his reign the old English quarrel between Church and State--which during the civil war had lain dormant--again rose, and was brought to a final issue.

It is not unusual to hear that the English Reformation grew out of the ambition of a libidinous monarch.

This is a coincidence rather than a cause.